Mapping Tools
This map tool unlocks how to read the symbols on the map.
What is the key?
This landform is a small body of water that is fresh water and completed surrounded by land
What is a lake?
What are six timezones?
This ocean is located between the United States and Europe and Africa
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
This is the most famous line of Latitude?
What is the Equator?
This map tool shows you all the different directions you can travel on a map?
What is a Compass Rose?
What are plains?
What time zone do we live in?
What is the Eastern Timezone?
What is the Artic Ocean
This ocean surround the country with the second-highest population in the world?
What is the Indian Ocean?
What are the eight different directions available on a Compass Rose?
North, South, East, West
and
Northwest, Southwest, Southeast, Northeast
This landform is a raised piece of earth that is completely flat on top.
What is a plateau?
Are timezones based on lines of latitude or longitude?
What is Longitude?
What is the largest continent in the world?
What is Asia
This type of map shows on countries borders and names
What is a political map?
This tool allows you to figure out how far the distance is between locations on a map.
What is a Map Scale?
Italy and Florida are examples of this type of landform
What is a peninsula?
What timezone is Hollywood, California in?
What is the Pacific Timezone?
This is the second largest continent and home to where human life began millions of years ago.
What is Africa
The Earth is broken into four of these geographic regions?
What are hemispheres?
If a map scale provides the following information:
1 inch = 600 miles
and the distance between two cities is three inches, how far away are actually those cities?
What is 1,8000 miles
How is a mountain formed?
It can be formed by moving plates of the Earth pushing together or by a volcano and erosion.
If a plane leaves New York at 4 pm and you take a 3-hour flight to Dallas, Texas(Central). What time do you land in Texas?
This ocean is the largest and deepest ocean on planet Earth?
What is the Pacific Ocean?
What is a Climate?